Aggravating little problem!

[philmart]

Part of an Apple thingie called "SunSphere" found its way into my trash, and now nothing--and I've tried just about everything--will let me remove it or empty the trash. Since there's nothing of value in the trash, is there some ultimate emptying technique?

I'll watch for suggestions. Thanks

 

[bobw]

Take it out of the trash to your Desktop.

Open the Terminal Application (in Utilities folder) and type:

cd ~/.Trash
hit return

sudo rm -rf

put a space after the f and drag the item you want deleted to the terminal so that its path is automatically entered, then press return

give it your admin password and hit return

 

[philmart]

That would probably have worked, but I couldn't take the file(s) out of the trash. Every time I tried, the Mac froze up with the black screen and multilingual "restart" message. I don't for the life of me know where a big folder called "Lost + Found" came from or why it's created; that's were the bad stuff was stored. It also contained lots of stuff I had deliberately trashed (of thought I had).

Thanks for your response!
Phil

Suddenly this evening I was able to keep clicking on the "can't empty" message and the stuff all disappeared. Go figure.